The Developmental Therapist specialty is generally very female-friendly with a large majority (94%) of providers reporting as female compared to only 5% reporting as male. People living in Florida, Massachusetts, Illinois, North Carolina, and New York enjoy living in one of the 5 most popular states/territories where Developmental Therapist providers practice. In all, there are 12,281 registered Developmental Therapist providers in the United States with over 4,049 of those located in Florida alone while around 2,018 chose to practice in Massachusetts.
Developmental Therapist providers have been assigned the 222Q00000X taxonomy code in the NPI registry, which is a Level II Classification. Click here for more information about medical specialty types.
Overall, Developmental Therapist specialists practice in 55 different states/territories.
A Developmental Therapist is a person qualified by completion of an approved program in Developmental Therapy and where applicable credentialed by the state and practicing within the scope of the credential, or credentialed by completion of education experiences as approved by the state and practicing within the scope of that credential or, where state credentialing does not exist, certified by the Board of the Developmental Therapy Association. A developmental therapist evaluates children's global development in order to identify areas of developmental delay whether arising from physiological, neurological, or environmental factors, or a combination of factors; and designs, implements, and modifies therapeutic interventions for the child and the family to promote the child's acquisition of skills in a variety of developmental areas, including cognitive processes and social interaction in order to maximize functional independence and developmental homeostasis, and improve the quality o